Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even slowed down by a bad auto accident several years ago in which his right knee was smashed into 20 pieces: he went right on working in the hospital, turning out his massive, 55-minute Folk Fantasy for Festivals. Now recovered (doctors had predicted he would never walk again), he works on several compositions at the same time, often taking his inspiration from famous historical figures...
...class mother in the West End emphasized the emotional security it confers: "To go back to the kind of medicine we had before, to that fear of illness, would be a nightmare." A lift operator, who has had nine operations, said: "I couldn't get on without it. Walk into a hospital and it doesn't cost you a penny. Ring up your doctor and he'll be there straight away...
...others he was given a suspended sentence (he might have had to spend up to three years in jail). Flashbulbs popped in his face once more, and he retreated to his $50,000 house on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, where he can throw open his French doors and walk in the small world of a semiprivate garden. "Charlie doesn't come out very much," says a neighbor...
...business end of an ax, the eyes slide around like eggs on a plate, the tiny mouth might almost be a third nostril. The legs-it somehow comes as a surprise that there are only two of them-look like snaggled paper clips jabbed into erasers, and when they walk the blubber above them wobbles with a sly, sidewise, fidgety motion: the poor thing appears to be fighting down an exceptionally irksome set of drawers...
Nearly every visitor to France has seen them: lean men in red berets, with open collars and rolled-up sleeves, who walk with the self-conscious swagger of a military elite. They are French paratroopers, who both defend De Gaulle's Fifth Re public and threaten to destroy it. This engrossing novel, by ex-Paratrooper Jean Lartèguy, 40, which has sold more than 400,000 copies in France, examines at length the fury and frustration animating this brotherhood...